HEALING HABITS

Haiku Poems by Rashna Walton

Haiku, a form of poetry from Japan, were written to describe nature and the seasons and followed a prescribed structure of 3 phrases and comprising 17 syllables. Whilst I have in part adhered to the format, it is the structural element of Haiku poetry that I enjoy with its discipline of keeping to the required length whilst endeavouring to express our relationship to nature, the cosmos and spirituality.

Rashna Walton

Being so in Love
I throw my arms wide open
To the Formless One.

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Breathe through all the pain
Rejoice in all the laughter
Ere the day is done.

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How do I reach You?
Hear You, walk alongside You?
All these with the Heart.

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When it's time to leave
This warm cave of blood and bone
Who will point the way?

Trying to reach You
My thoughts wing upwards and graze
The edge of heaven.

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Birth of the cosmos
Whose life and death is written
In light upon dark.

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Comet pebble flung
Through space to skim the surface
Of earth’s atmosphere.

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If no one watches
The giant redwood falling
Should it make a sound?

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After the storm, torn
From the branch my wind chime smashed
Upon the wet earth.

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Rushing of snow melt
Foaming from the mountain-side
Brims the agate pool.

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Pale white galleon
Who sails anew each evening
Drops anchor at dawn.

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Mirrored in the lake
Skein of flying geese aloft
Shoal of fish beneath.

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Circles widening
As the watchful heron’s beak
Breaks the still water.

Something a little different....

By the time one realizes there are
But a finite number of opportunities,
The simplest Act of Kindness becomes
Something akin to devotion

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Heraldry

I am a war torn flag
Fluttering in life's breeze.
Purple, gold, blue and red,
Crimson for the blood I've shed.
Loudly cracks the cloth of history
A ragged semaphore for mystery.
Lament or joyous testament
I shredding, fraying strand by strand
At last unravelling in the wind
I'll stand
Revealed, Reconciled,
Healed.